DxD: A World Where T*tties Defy Gravity [ Chapter 7: Good News and Bad News! ] (Patreon)

At around the same time Rex and Palutena departed for Heaven, it was an hour or so past the end of the school day in Kuoh Academy.

Rias Gremory was sat at the desk in the main meeting room for the Occult Research Club which was just a front for her peerage, which consisted of, including herself, six members, five of which currently attended this school, finishing off the homework that she had been set today, while Mirajane Strauss, Rias' best friend, Queen and third-year student of Kuoh Academy just like Rias, sat on one of the sofas, and did some homework of her own.

Mirajane was a slim young woman of below average height, standing a couple of inches below Rias.

She had long, white hair that curled slightly at the ends, with two bangs framing her face and reaching down to her chest.

Her hairstyle's most distinctive trait was a short, upward ponytail at the front of her head. She had large blue eyes, and a curvy, voluptuous body, with large breasts.

She, like her King, Rias, wore the Kuoh Academy girls' school uniform, though she did away with the black ribbon on the collar of her shirt.

"So, did Rex just teleport away?" Mirajane asked Rias, who had been telling her the events of the previous night. She wasn't there to see them, as she was away on a summoning.

"Yes, he did." Rias replied. "After asking me to tell my brother and sister-in-law that he said hi. I'm not sure why, but they got really worked up when I mentioned his name. Serafall also tensed up as well."

Mirajane gave a small snigger.

"Serafall? Becoming tense? Are you sure you're okay?" She asked, slightly teasingly. Rias silently glared at Mirajane in reply, but giggled.

"Yeah, I am. I'm sure I'm fine, Mira." Rias replied. "Though I'm not entirely sure that Sirzechs and Grayfia are, after I brought Rex up to them."

Right as Rias said that, a silver magic-circle formed on the floor, and out of it came the maid-uniform-clad Grayfia Lucifuge, looking uncharacteristically urgent.

"Rias." Rias spoke to Rias. "On behalf of your brother, you need to take me to the Church where you saw Rex!"

It took Rias a second or so to fully process what her sister-in-law had said.

"What?" Rias blinked, standing up, with Mirajane standing up as well. "What's going on, Grayfia? Is this about Rex?"

All Rias got in reply was a sharp nod from Grayfia as she walked over to Rias.

"Come on!" Grayfia, her voice conveying simultaneous extreme hope and extreme urgency. "Let's go!"

"R-right!" Rias replied, creating a transportation-circle that would take them to the abandoned Church where the four Fallen Angels had occupied up until the night before, where she and her Knight, Yuuto Kiba, had killed three of them, and Rex had killed the other one, while Isane tried to rescue a nun whose name, she learned from her cute Pawn, was Asi from being killed by them.

She, Grayfia and Mirajane all stepped into the transportation-circle, and disappeared, coming out just outside the church, the door of which was still destroyed.

Rias, Grayfia and Mirajane all stepped into the church, and Grayfia spoke to Rias again.

"Well, Rias? Do you know exactly where he disappeared from? Or at least, an approximate location?"

"Yes." Rias replied. "I remember. He disappeared from around here." She walked forward until she was just behind the back pews, but in between them. "Around this spot."

"Very well." Grayfia said, stepping forward. "Step aside." Rias obeyed her brother's Queen's order, and stepped aside, while Grayfia stepped into that very spot, and began focusing her demonic power which was cast into the ground at that spot. "Hmmm..."

"What?" Rias stepped forward. "What's up? What are you doing?"

"Grayfia's scanning for the presence of a transportation-circle." Rias and Mirajane both jumped in surprise, and whirled around to see Sirzechs Lucifer himself standing in the doorway of the church, and walking in.

"If luck is on our side, we'll be able to trace the transportation-circle that Rex used, and possibly, be able to follow him using the same circle."

"You can do that with magic-circles?" Rias asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Rias, we're Devils." Sirzechs replied, looking at his little sister in slight exasperation. "As long as you put your mind to it, and have enough desire and demonic power, you can do pretty much anything." He looked to Grayfia. "Any joy, Grayfia?"

"Well, there is good news and bad news." Grayfia replied, turning around.

"What's the good news?" Rias asked, before Sirzechs could.

"Well, the good news, Rias, is that I AM able to sense a transportation-circle, with Rex' magical signature." Grayfia replied.

"And... the bad news?" Mirajane put forward, tentatively.

"The bad news, Mirajane, is that... I can barely sense it at all." Grayfia replied. The Sirzechs looked shocked.

"What?!" He stepped forward. "Grayfia, let me try!" Obediently, Sirzechs' Queen stepped aside, and Sirzechs stood at the spot Grayfia stood at, and pooled his demonic power into the spot Grayfia said she could sense Rex' magical signature from.

After about half a minute, he came up, also confused.

"Strange." He muttered. "I can barely sense anything, either."

"Then what does this mean?" Rias asked. "Does it mean that we won't be able to find Rex?"

The simultaneous looks that Grayfia and Sirzechs gave Rias were both enough to nearly make her soil her underwear.

And that was something she really didn't want to do, as she was wearing her favourite set of lingerie under her school uniform.

"It means, Rias." Sirzechs replied, his voice uncharacteristically as cold as Grayfia usually was. "That Rex has learned how to cloak his own magical signature, and add that cloaking to his transportation-circle, in order to prevent us from doing what we mean to do: follow him."

"Oh." Rias replied. "Then, what can we do?"